A weirder thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. The show returned from the first commercial break and Letterman was already in the middle of interviewing the first guest (Channing Tatum I think). The local affiliate must have somehow "fast-forwarded" their feed. Craig Ferguson actually started 15 minutes early. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It seems really incompetent....someone should have been fired for it.

A weirder thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. The show returned from the first commercial break and Letterman was already in the middle of interviewing the first guest (Channing Tatum I think). The local affiliate must have somehow "fast-forwarded" their feed. Craig Ferguson actually started 15 minutes early. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It seems really incompetent....someone should have been fired for it.

Absolutely! Fired and possible jail time! I mean if someone from the local affiliate can screw up this badly, even once, we need that person off the street and in lockup somewhere!

A weirder thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. The show returned from the first commercial break and Letterman was already in the middle of interviewing the first guest (Channing Tatum I think). The local affiliate must have somehow "fast-forwarded" their feed. Craig Ferguson actually started 15 minutes early. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It seems really incompetent....someone should have been fired for it.

You work in a television master control where one man (or woman) does everything, and we'll watch you when you get fired for making a single mistake.

Geeze, give them a break. I can tell you've never had to work like that.

The non-East Coast stations don't record the satellite feed and play it back later anymore??

Back when I was involved with live closed captioning in 1997-99, the networks had three separate feeds for their prime-time and late-night programming: Eastern/Central, Mountain (one hour later), and Pacific (three hours later). As far as I know, that hasn't changed.

Daytime was more complicated, but there were enough feeds that most affiliates wouldn't have needed to record a feed for later playback unless they were deliberately airing the shows "out of pattern" (something that was particularly true of NBC affiliates, but NBC made it easy for them by providing feeds of their daytime shows beginning as early as 5:00 A.M.).

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We need ask phox_mulder to visit this thread. I think he works at one of the network affiliates in Salt Lake City.

As far as I know, the only affiliates that record it and play it back later are in the Mountain Time Zone, probably Alaska and Hawaii too.

There are a few in the Pacific Time Zone that utilize the East Coast feed so they can start their late news earlier than their competitors.

There really isn't a way for any in the East or Central time zones do anything with the feed.
It is fed "live to air", there isn't any way to skip over 15 minutes in the middle of the feed unless they are delaying it.

CBS gives stations 35 minutes for their local news between the end of Prime and start of Letterman.
I could see some stations doing an hour long late news, then playing Letterman/Ferguson after the news.

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CBS gives stations 35 minutes for their local news between the end of Prime and start of Letterman.
I could see some stations doing an hour long late news, then playing Letterman/Ferguson after the news.

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I have never thought of this scenario, but I have always seen and remember Letterman starting at 11:35. At the same time I have always lived in 1 of 3 markets.

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When I worked at a CBS affiliate the worst part of my job was having to flip Martha Stewart in 4-5 hrs. Luckily that was the daytime shift which I only worked when I first started and then later in my MCO career on rare instances.

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It is fed "live to air", there isn't any way to skip over 15 minutes in the middle of the feed unless they are delaying it.

I am on the East Coast (DC market specifically) and it happened. I record Letterman every night and I look forward to whatever 'desk piece' he does following the first spot break and before the Top Ten. It was completely missing and the first interview was already underway when they came back from commercial....and Ferguson was on the last 15 minutes of my recording.

I have never thought of this scenario, but I have always seen and remember Letterman starting at 11:35. At the same time I have always lived in 1 of 3 markets.

I can tell I'm old because I remember Letterman starting at 12:30 (later 12:35). If I were really old, I'd remember him starting at 10:00...in the morning.

Rather than an hour-long late news, what used to be somewhat common on ABC and CBS affiliates was late news until 11:30 (later 11:35), and then a half-hour syndicated show. When Letterman first moved to CBS, he was delayed to 12:05 in Tampa. (They weren't specifically picking on Letterman; they'd done the same with the "Crimetime After Primetime" shows, with Pat Sajak, with the "CBS Late Movie"...) It took the CBS affiliation changing to a different channel to get him on at 11:35.

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